For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.
THOMAS PYNCHONEverybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
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Real flight and dreams of flight go together. Both are part of the same movement. Not A before B, but all together.
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To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.
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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
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Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.
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Length is usually intensity. Not time.
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Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
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Life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.
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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.
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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.
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What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one’s enemy only when his back is turned?
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Our history is an aggregate of last moments.
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The reality is in this head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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